Gilbert Stuart
The Skater
1782245.3 x 147.6 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 531
Literature
Viccy Coltman and Stephen Lloyd (eds.), Henry Raeburn, Edinburgh, 2012, fig. 2.6
Provenance
The sitter, William Grant (died 1821), Congalton, Scotland, and Cheltenham, England
his son, William Grant (died 1827), Congalton, Scotland, and London
his daughter, Elizabeth Grant (Mrs. Charles Pelham-Clinton, died 1899)
her son, Charles Stapleton Pelham-Clinton (1857-1911), Moor Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire
his widow, Elizabeth Pelham-Clinton (died 1946), London and Holmes Green, Buckinghamshire
her niece and adopted daughter, Georgiana Elizabeth May Pelham-Clinton (Mrs. John Stuart Bordewich, born 1913) London
sold 1950 to the NGA
Other works by Gilbert Stuart
John Bill Ricketts
1793/99
1793/99
John R. Murray
c. 1800
c. 1800
Portrait of Evgeniya Iosifovna Dashkova
David Sears, Jr.
c. 1815
c. 1815
Matthew Clarkson
c. 1794
c. 1794